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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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